European alternatives to Discord
A voice-and-text platform born in gaming that's become a home for communities of every kind. It's a venture-backed US company on Google Cloud, with no end-to-end encryption for text and a lot of data on who talks to whom.
Company information about Discord
- Company
- Discord Inc.
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2015
- Data jurisdiction
- United States
- Ownership
- VC-backed
- GDPR
- No
- Open source
- No
- Infrastructure
- Google Cloud
Why people switch away from Discord
European alternatives to Discord
Fluxer is open-source chat, voice and video software from Sweden, built as an alternative to Discord. It began as one student's project and now has a small team. Self-hosting unlocks every premium feature for free.
German all-in-one collaboration platform combining team chat, project management, video conferencing, and document editing. All data stored exclusively in Germany with end-to-end encryption. ISO 27001 certified. Used by 10,000+ companies.
European secure communications platform built on the open Matrix protocol. Used by NATO, the EU, French and German governments, and 47M+ users across 80,000+ deployments. Self-hostable with full end-to-end encryption.
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Why avoid United States-owned services?
CLOUD Act
Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.
FISA Section 702
Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.
GDPR vs US law conflict
EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.